Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial steps, I was scheduled for an onsite-style set of back-to-back rounds, and I ended up doing four rounds in one day with senior engineers and then additional interviews focused on leadership and design.

The day started with coding and problem-solving. I worked through DSA questions where the interviewer cared a lot about how I talked through edge cases out loud. One coding moment involved meeting intervals where I used a heap, and then there was a follow-up that added a twist about minimizing idle time through reassignment. Another round pushed me into an LRU cache